# US 2014/0193055 A1 · Image reconstruction device and image reconstruction method

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- Number: US 2014/0193055 A1
- Document ID: US20140193055A1
- Status: Published application
- Kind: A1
- Application number: 14/128,769
- Filed: 2012-07-05
- Published: 2014-07-10
- Earliest claimed: 2011-07-08
- Assignees: Hitachi Medical Corporation
- Inventors: Hisashi Takahashi; Taiga Goto; Koichi Hirokawa
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20140193055A1

## CPC

- G06T 12/20: Inverse problem, i.e. transformations from projection space into object space
- G06T 2211/412: Dynamic
- G06T 2211/424: Iterative
- G06T: IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL

## Abstract

To provide an image reconstruction device capable of creating an image with image quality matching the operator's request when a cross-sectional image is reconstructed through a repeated calculation, the image reconstruction device which performs a repeated calculation on the basis of a difference between calculated projection data and measured projection data, the calculated projection data being obtained by performing a forward projection calculation on a reconstructed image which is reconstructed based on the measured projection data, includes an input section to which an image quality parameter which is considered to be important by an operator is input, a weight calculation section that calculates a weighting coefficient on the basis of the image quality parameter, and a repeated calculation section that performs a repeated calculation on the basis of a value obtained by weighting and adding a pixel value obtained in the previous iteration to a pixel value obtained from now using the weighting coefficient.

## Claims

### Claim 1

An image reconstruction device which generates an iteratively reconstructed image by performing a repeated calculation on the basis of a difference between calculated projection data and measured projection data, the calculated projection data being obtained by performing a forward projection calculation on a reconstructed image which is reconstructed based on the measured projection data, the image reconstruction device comprising:
an input section to which an image quality parameter which is considered to be important by an operator s input;
a weight calculation section that calculates a weighting coefficient on the basis of the image quality parameter; and
a repeated calculation section that performs a repeated calculation on the basis of a value obtained by weighting and adding a pixel value obtained in the previous iteration to a pixel value obtained from now using the weighting coefficient.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The image reconstruction device according to claim 1,
wherein at least one of motion artifact reduction and region boundary emphasis is input to the input section as the image quality parameter.

### Claim 3 (depends on 2)

The image reconstruction device according to claim 2,
wherein the weight calculation section calculates a view direction weight which is determined based on a distance perpendicular to the reconstructed image as a weighting coefficient when the motion artifact reduction is input as the image quality parameter.

### Claim 4 (depends on 3)

The image reconstruction device according to claim 3,
wherein the view direction weight is determined based on a distance from a view which is transmitted through a target pixel on the reconstructed image to the reconstructed image.

### Claim 5 (depends on 2)

The image reconstruction device according to claim 2,
wherein the weight calculation unit calculates a degree of a region boundary in the reconstructed image when the region boundary emphasis is input as the image quality parameter, and calculates a weighting coefficient based on the degree.

### Claim 6 (depends on 5)

The image reconstruction device according to claim 5,
wherein the degree of the region boundary is calculated using an image obtained by performing an edge emphasis process on the reconstructed image.

### Claim 7

An image reconstruction method of generating an iteratively reconstructed image by performing a repeated calculation on the basis of a difference between calculated projection data and measured projection data, the calculated projection data being obtained by performing a forward projection calculation on a reconstructed image which is reconstructed based on the measured projection data, the image reconstruction method comprising:
acquisition of acquiring an image quality parameter which is considered to be important by an operator;
weight calculation of calculating a weighting coefficient on the basis of the image quality parameter; and
repeated calculation of performing a repeated calculation on the basis of a value obtained by weighting and adding a pixel value in the previous iteration to a pixel value in a current iteration using the weighting coefficient.